The playability of the card is a little more dependent on the meta youre facing, meaning it definitely can overperfom in creature heavy metas while being a bad choice of card in your 75 against a field of combo and control shells
That player discards that card
With all sorts of ways to tap down creatures, with cards like Sleep, Opposition, and Timin, Youthful Geist, you have a plethora of cards to not only lock down your opponents, but to provide tons of board presence and card advantage over the course of the game
A third card that loosely goes into this family that is Phthisis
Artifact Color tag templates(None) Crypt Ghast Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
You might have a card that's extremely expensive in pristine condition, but if you left it under a couch for years and it's folded in half and dog-eared that value will begin to drop rapidly